She’s accused of plotting to extort $20 million from the son of a Saudi Arabian sheik, but a raven-haired German beauty apparently forgot one crucial detail — money for bail in case she got caught.
Leyla Ors, 33, was ordered held on a relatively low $35,000 bail at her arraignment on extortion and bribery raps in Los Angeles court Tuesday.
The petite woman — who, according to allegations, meticulously plotted her way into the son’s life and at one point burned herself with cigarettes to fake torture at the man’s hands — could have posted just $3,500, or 10 percent, to be freed.
Instead, represented by a public defender, she was hauled off to jail until her next hearing on July 25.
Her alleged victim’s lawyer had little sympathy.
“This was a very overt money play that was based on pure greed,” Alan Jackson, who is representing Thamer Albalwi, the 23-year-old son of uber-wealthy Sheik Monsur Albalwi, told The Post.
Ors targeted Thamer as a patsy after meeting him in Vienna in 2012, when she worked as a tour guide for his family while they vacationed there, a source said. She then visited Thamer for a few weeks this past spring in LA, where he’d been learning English for about a year, the source said.
Her plan was clearly to seduce him, the source said — and bleed him dry.
Ors, a German national of Turkish descent, went to the cops after the California visit to claim that Thamer raped and tortured her for days inside his tony high-rise condo.
The young Saudi was arrested — and went from “satin pillows to a bunk in a jail cell’’ in one of the city’s toughest holding centers, the source said. He was freed on $3 million bail after two weeks.
But in June, Ors and two lawyer accomplices made a big mistake, prosecutors say. One of the lawyers, Emanuel Hudson, called Thamer’s father and told him Ors would not testify and “the case would be over” — for $15 million, according to the criminal complaint.
That same day, the other lawyer, Joseph Cavallo, allegedly also called the sheik and demanded $20 million to end the case.
The charges were dropped against Thamer last week, and the others were arrested after officials eventually used phone and credit-card records, as well as video surveillance, to help disprove Ors’ claims.
Ors pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
Cavallo also pleaded not guilty and made $50,000 bail. His lawyer, John Barnett, insisted to The Post that a “representative of the sheik’’ first contacted Cavallo and that they simply discussed how to settle Ors’ civil claim.
“It was a suit, not a bribe,’’ Barnett said.
Hudson, who was already arraigned and released, declined to comment.